Campagnolo Compatible Chains

[nickyboy]

Running Campagnolo Centaur 10 speed. My chain needs replacing and don't want sell a kidney to get a Campagnolo chain

KMC seem well recommended but which one to get? Or some other brand that anyone would recommend?

Doing a lot of climbing so chain gets plenty of stress so needs to be reasonably decent. It's only taken me about 4 months and 2000km to get 1% stretch into the genuine Campagnolo chain

 

[slowmotion]

All KMC X10 series chains fit Campagnolo Centaur. See here...
http://www.kmcchain.eu/faq-13

I use an inexpensive X10 on my Veloce bike and they work fine. I'm not at all good on hills though.

 

[ColinJ]

I just use mid-range SRAM.

 

[Graeme_FK]

How hilly your riding is has very little to do with chain wear.

It's not stretched BTW, that's a myth. A correctly joined chain will break on an end load somewhat in excess of 1000 kg / 1 metric ton but it will elongate very little before that happens and you won't be putting anything like a ton of end load on, no matter how hilly your rides!

Wear on a chain has more to do with how clean you keep it and how worn you allow chain, chainrings and cassette to get - the more care you take of your chain, though, and the cleaner you keep everything, the better you will control all three of these things. A worn chain refers wear to the cassette and to the chainrings and vice versa.

You will be better off with the chain that is correctly designed to shift with the ramping on chainrings and sprockets (assuming that you are using an all-Campag system), in just the same way as you'd be better using SRAM with SRAM or Shimano with Shimano - third party chains will work of course but by the nature of things, they are a compromise between the various systems out there ... so they won't shift as well as the chains for which (especially chainrings) were engineered to carry between shifts ...

The KMC chains do tend to scar the plastic chain bumper than Campag put on the inside of the FD cage as well - this is a widely known problem, resulting from the fact that KMC links are not bevelled in the same way as the edges of Campag chain links - the bevelling being there to mate correctly with the shift ramps on both rings and sprockets.

 

[dan_bo]

I just use mid-range SRAM.

 

[nickyboy]

Blimey, I keep the chain and cassette really clean but still I get 1% after a couple of thousand kms. Must be my epic watts.

Anyhoo I've ordered a KMC X10-93 so we'll see how it goes. If it's shoot I'll try something else.

 

[ColinJ]

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Is that all you have to say for yourself, young man!

 

[Tojo]

Blimey, I keep the chain and cassette really clean but still I get 1% after a couple of thousand kms. Must be my epic watts.

Anyhoo I've ordered a KMC X10-93 so we'll see how it goes. If it's shoot I'll try something else.

Keeping it clean is only the start point if you don't lube it properly it'll just grind itself to oblivion...ask your lass when you try it on when your pissed.......

 

[dan_bo]

Is that all you have to say for yourself, young man!

Makes a change eh!